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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GettyImages-98396340.jpg?w=1024″] A suspect has been charged in the wake of what British authorities described as a “high-value burglary” at the Bristol Museum in the UK last September. As reported by the BBC, “Dean Hall, 41, from Redcliffe, Bristol, has been charged with handling stolen goods. He was given unconditional bail and he is…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Sothebys-Helena-Newman-auctioneering-the-Modern-Evening-Auction_2.jpg?w=1024″] Sotheby’s reported record first-half consolidated sales of $4.4 billion on Tuesday, up 58 percent from the same period last year, fueled by gains across auctions, private sales, and its growing luxury businesses. Auction sales rose 59 percent to $3.4 billion, while private sales climbed 52 percent to a record $826 million. The…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Photo-credit_-Matthew-Sherman-3.jpg?w=1024″] The Tyrannosaurus rex known as “Gus” has become the most expensive dinosaur ever sold at auction after fetching $50.1 million at Sotheby’s on Tuesday, extending a remarkable run that has transformed prehistoric fossils from natural history curiosities into one of the hottest corners of the luxury collectibles market.  The 67-million-year-old skeleton sold after…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/davidaaron-newsmakers.png?w=1024″] When Sotheby’s sold “Sue,” a 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, for $8.4 million in 1997, the house changed the way the art world looked at dinosaur fossils. Nearly three decades later, the market has grown dramatically. In 2020, Christie’s sold another T. rex, named “Stan,” for $31.8 million. And then, in 2024, Sotheby’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/GettyImages-2248767662.jpg?w=1024″] Grand Staircase–Escalante, a national monument in Utah that is host to rock art dating back multiple millennia, will be significantly decreased in scale by Donald Trump as his administration attempts to capitalize on resources on the site’s land. Established in 1996 at a scale of 1.7 million acres, Grand Staircase–Escalante has contracted…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Photo-credit_-Matthew-Sherman-3.jpg?w=1024″] To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! A $30 million T. rex reignites a debate over whether fossils belong in private collections. Felix Art Fair will change its format for the 2027 edition.  A forgotten Andy Warhol artwork made on a restaurant table has resurfaced in Austria. The Headlines…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Robert-Rauschenberg-Rasputins-Revenge-Early-Winter-Glut-1987.-Robert-Rauschenberg-Foundation.jpg?w=1024″] The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has given three works by the artist to Artist Rooms, a collection that is jointly managed by the London-based Tate museum network and the National Galleries of Scotland. Though Rauschenberg remains best known for his Combines from the postwar era, all three of the works given to Artist…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Felix-poolside.jpg?w=1024″] Felix Art Fair is betting that less can be more. The Los Angeles fair will dramatically reshape its format beginning with its 2027 edition, abandoning its longtime split between the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel’s upper-floor suites and its famous poolside cabanas in favor of a unified layout centered entirely around the hotel’s two-story…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Tash-Perrin-selling-the-Black-Strat-the-most-expensive-guitar-of-all-time.jpg?w=1024″] Fresh off the record-breaking sale of the late Jim Irsay’s memorabilia collection, Christie’s is planning a sale centered around another topic with broad popular appeal: the World Cup. The house announced an online charity auction tied to the tournament that will include game-used match balls, team-signed jerseys, and costumes worn by performers…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://www.artnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/HNFnmMzXAAAX-sW.jpg?w=1024″] A painting that once belonged to the prominent Dutch Jewish art dealer Jacques Goudstikker has been successfully identified and will be returned to his heirs. The discovery of the painting, depicting the interior of Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and likely by Dutch Golden Age painter Hendrick van der Burgh, has an…